CVE-2016-8610

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    CVE-2016-8610

    Published: 13 Nov 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.

    References: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af58be768ebb690f78530f796e92b8ae5c9a4401, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0286.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0574.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1415.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1659.html, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93841, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037084, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1413, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1414, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1658, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1802, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2493, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2494, https://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610/, https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:35.openssl.asc, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171130-0001/, https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-8610, https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03897en_us, https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3773, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8610, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html, https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html, https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- e818b74be2170fbe957a07b0da4401c2b694b3b8
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.9.8

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High